#Orwell

liz chatterjee

natterjee

The history of (Western) smells is convinced that modernity is "deodorized": nasty odours are distanced and segregated off. But surely this is predicated on environmental injustice? The "olfactory revolution" coincided

Alex Rampell

arampell

1/ There’s an opportunity to turn remote education from a weakness to a strength — from a badly rendered “sage on a stage” (constant in education for 100s of years,

Jade Eloise Norris

jadenozzz

Wondering... the mix of fear and huge emphasis on collectivist behaviours (do 'x' to protect others) reduces the individual, their needs and freedoms. Reducing the needs of the individual always

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

janeclarejones

I'm not a liberal, I'm a leftist. Although I'm also deeply anti-authoritarian and while democracy is a highly imperfect system, it's still the best option we have, and a great

Opium Tales (Povești de Opiu) 🇺🇸

romanopiumtales

MORE AMERICAN LEGENDS I've discussed many times that the way to destroy a culture is to destroy her history and her languageGive the conquered people nothing to remember and no

Neil Tester

NTtweeting

Unusually, I didn’t live tweet from @MattHancock’s Future of Healthcare speech this morning. I wanted to think about the text afterwards, and the novelty of being IN A ROOM WITH

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BoliqueAna

BIG BROTHERin Disguise: The Rise of a New, Technological World OrderFrom an article by @ActivistPost “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound

Narrative Feeder

narrativefeeder

1. On language: In 1984, George Orwell created a totalitarian universe that has since become so famous it gave birth to its own adjective. Both sides of the political spectrum

unseen1

unseen1_unseen

1. Okay let me explain the fake media's strategy over the last 20 months. As I am starting to see it. Orwell called it the 2 mins of hate but

Sheena Greitens

SheenaGreitens

Was initially excited to see this piece on China's AI & tech surveillance from @anderson @TheAtlantic. But it too glibly repeats a lot of China's own hype about surveillance systems

Kai Nagata 🇨🇦

kainagata

Thanks @chriswalkerCBC and @CBCKelowna for your interest in our complaint (led by @bccla) about RCMP spying. Eight years ago, two undercover officers infiltrated a workshop on "personal storytelling" hosted by

Imogen Cassels

imogen_cassels

i've been thinking lots, for a long time now, abt the problems of finding & establishing alternative practices of buying clothes that avoid or minimise the use of fast fashionhttps://twitter.com/oilyoils/status/1276506020156710918

Jonny Ecology

JonnyEcology

Thread 1/14. One of the positives I've tried to take from lockdown is the opportunity for exploring local nature on a deeper level than time normally allows 2/14 This winter

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

One of the wisest things anyone's ever said to me about predictive policing tools - algorithms that purport predict where crime will occur - is that they don't predict crime,

Tom Rosenstiel

TomRosenstiel

6... To understand objectivity’s true meaning, think of transparency of method and discipline of verification. Objectivity is not neutrality or disinterestedness. Those notions invite unconscious bias--the very problem the objective

GOPPouncer

Mellecon

Melle rant After this week and after 22 years, I will never vote for another @GOP politician again. While the left is making lists, cleansing and reeducation camp;

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